Technology

[Via Satellite 09-15-2015] General Dynamics Satcom Technologies has received a contract from Pascom, a satellite communications integrator in Chile, for an advanced Earth station antenna reflector and communications signal feed design […]

[Via Satellite 09-14-2015] Burgeoning satellite operator Fibersat has signed a framework agreement with Arabsat for the acquisition of a high throughput Ka-band hosted payload on an upcoming satellite. The payload, […]

[Via Satellite 09-14-2015] Lockheed Martin is introducing payload technology on Hellas-Sat 4/SaudiGeoSat 1 to enable flexible bandwidth and frequency management for secure communications. That same technology can be used to […]

[Via Satellite 09-14-2015] The World Teleport Association (WTA) has started its Teleport Certification Program with a team of four beta customers: du, Elara Comunicaciones, GlobalSat and The Talia Group. WTA’s […]

[Via Satellite 09-11-2015] ViaSat has granted terminal type approval certification to five new Ka-band mobile VSAT antenna models from AvL Technologies for use on the company’s Ka-band enterprise service network. […]

[Via Satellite 09-10-2015] Firefly Space Systems, designer of a series of dedicated launch vehicles for small satellites, today tested its first rocket engine Firefly Rocket Engine Research 1 (FRE-R1). The test […]

[Via Satellite 09-10-2015] Onlime has upgraded its 15-meter C-band antenna connected to Measat’s Africasat 1a with a high power C-band modular High Power Amplifier (HPA) from General Dynamics Satcom Technologies. […]

[Via Satellite 09-10-2015] The all-electric satellite ABS 3A, built by Boeing for Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS), is operational following an on-orbit handover on Aug. 31. The satellite, based on the […]

[Via Satellite 09-08-2015] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) has selected Skyline Communications’ DataMiner to automate its operations end-to-end. DataMiner reads service configurations from TSBc’s existing service configuration database and, with that […]

[Via Satellite 09-04-2015] Cobbett Hill Earth Station, one of the fastest growing independently owned teleports, is actively considering expanding to become a global operator by the end of next year. […]

[Via Satellite 09-04-2015] M/A-COM Technology Solutions (MACOM) has released the MAAP-011246, a new 2-Watt power amplifier, and the MAAP-011139, a new 4-Watt power amplifier in a Surface Mount Technology (SMT) […]

[Via Satellite 09-04-2015] Planet Labs has added Ann Mather as its first independent board director. Mather is on the board of directors for Google, Netflix, MGM, Shutterfly, and Arista Networks, […]

[Via Satellite 09-04-2015] Globalstar Europe Satellite Services has reached an agreement with wireless communications specialist Identec Solutions to integrate Globalstar’s STX3 chipset into a new asset-tracking solution. Identec Solutions will […]

[Via Satellite 09-03-2015] “Ten years from now we’ll have three legacy satellites refueled in orbit — past tense,” predicted Benjamin Reed, deputy project manager of the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office […]

[Via Satellite 09-2015] The first European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) payload, hosted on SES 5, is fully operational, SES announced Sept. 2. The EGNOS GEO 1 L-band hosted payload […]

[Via Satellite 09-01-2015] Russian satellite services provider GeoTelecommunications (GT Telecom) has purchased a SkyEdge 2-c platform from Gilat Satellite Networks. The SkyEdge 2-c platform will replace an existing VSAT network, […]

[Via Satellite 08-31-2015] Russian satellite operator Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) is intent on filling out its existing fleet of satellites in 2016. The company, which has 3.5 times more capacity […]

[Via Satellite 08-31-2015] Italian boat manufacturer Monte Carlo Yachts (MCY) has selected KVH Industries’ TracVision TV8 marine satellite television antenna system for its newest and largest luxury line, the MCY […]

[Via Satellite 08-28-2015] Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. (GES) has appointed Martin C Faulkes as chairman of its board of directors. The appointment of Faulkes further strengthens GES as it continues […]

[Via Satellite 08-27-2015] The European space industry is soon to gain a boost in venture capital once the London-based Seraphim Capital launches the Seraphim Space and Special Situations Fund during […]

[Via Satellite 08-27-2015] Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited, or AsiaSat, reported that licensing approvals are inhibiting growth from its new satellites AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 during its 2015 interim […]

[Via Satellite 08-26-2015] An average of 140 satellites with launch masses greater than 50 kg will enter orbit by 2024, according to Euroconsult’s new “Satellites to be Built & Launched […]

[Via Satellite 08-26-2015] The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract to Space Systems/Loral (SSL) to study on-orbit robotic assembly of geostationary communications satellites. The […]

[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] The University of Michigan recently started building a constellation of eight microsatellites for use on NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, which aims to improve […]

[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] Commercial weather startup PlanetiQ has opened a science and engineering facility in Boulder, Colo., where the development and manufacture of the first 12 Pyxis sensors will take place. […]

[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] Qatari satellite company Es’hailSat has selected a 50,000 square meter site north of the city of Doha, Qatar, to establish a new teleport. Promer Qatar Contracting Company […]

[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] Lockheed Martin scientists have improved threefold the power density of the company’s High Power Microcryocooler. The new system cools optics and electronics to as low as minus […]

[Via Satellite 08-24-2015] Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with Orbital ATK for propellant and pressurant tanks for its modernized A2100 satellite platform. Under the new five-year contract, Orbital ATK […]

[Via Satellite 08-24-2015] Newtec together with Intelsat, have achieved a world first for the amount of throughput in a single transponder. During a demonstration at Intelsat’s Fuchsstadt teleport in Germany, engineers […]

[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] Airbus Defence and Space has completed an imagery project covering all of South Africa in three months using the Spot 6 and Spot 7 twin satellites. A […]